We are about to change the way aliases are expanded, to use the early config machinery. This machinery reports errors in a slightly different manner than the cached config machinery. Let's not get hung up by the precise wording of the message mentioning the lin number. It is really sufficient to verify that all the relevant information is given to the user. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- t/t1308-config-set.sh | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/t/t1308-config-set.sh b/t/t1308-config-set.sh index ff50960ccae..69a0aa56d6d 100755 --- a/t/t1308-config-set.sh +++ b/t/t1308-config-set.sh @@ -215,7 +215,9 @@ test_expect_success 'check line errors for malformed values' ' br EOF test_expect_code 128 git br 2>result && - test_i18ngrep "fatal: .*alias\.br.*\.git/config.*line 2" result + test_i18ngrep "missing value for .alias\.br" result && + test_i18ngrep "fatal: .*\.git/config" result && + test_i18ngrep "fatal: .*line 2" result ' test_expect_success 'error on modifying repo config without repo' ' -- 2.13.0.windows.1.460.g13f583bedb5